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Box 01 (Collection I) Folder 1
Biographical - Curriculum vitae, 1930s-1960s
Primarily biographical material gathered for WKH's various government positions.
Includes, among other papers, biographical narratives and timelines, Power Authority of the State of New York membership invitiation from Robert Moses; completed government questionaires; correspondence related to WKH's role as Director of the Office of Inter-American Affairs (includes a letter from President Harry Truman); identification and personnel data forms submitted in application for Directorship of Planning for United Nations Headquarters.
Box 01 (Collection I) Folder 2
Biographical Material, 1930s-1960s
Primarily biographical sketches for various publications; however, noteably, included is correspondence and WKH biographical sketch for a defense position with the National Resources Planning Board.
Box 01 (Collection I) Folder 3
Harrison & Abramovitz Job Lists, Records wanted for Book, Publicity, Prospects Compiled from old files & current records, 1945, 1960s-1970s
Box 01 (Collection I) Folder 4
Biographical and Personal - Citations & Awards, 1930s-1970s
Includes the typescript of WKH's introduction for Robert Moses at the New York Building Congress Luncheon (1954)
Box 01 (Collection I) Folder 5
AIA Gold Medal Award & Correspondence, 1945, 1956, 1967-8
Box 02 (Collection I) Folder 1 to 2
Biographical photos and printed articles, 1940s-1980s
Includes a portrait of WKH, ca. 1940s? (2 copies).
Cabinet Avery 218
[Doodle Books]
[Paper inventory avialable in the D&A reading room]
Box 17 (Collection I) Folder 17
[Doodle Books Ephemera]
Includes a letter from Nelson Rockefeller to WKH and Ellen Harrison (1965); Letter from S. Moholy-Nagy; Letter from Robert Moses to WKH (1966); Letter from Eleanor Belmont to Ellen Harrison (1964).
Box 02 (Collection I) Folder 3
Publicity - Personal, 1945-1953
Box 02 (Collection I) Folder 4
Books, 1940s, 1970s
Includes outline and notes for WKH's book on Nelson A. Rockefeller; WKH review of Lewis Mumford's Roots of Contemporary American Architecture; typescript of WKH's "Planning Office Skyscrapers"; Review of Le Corbusier's "Towards a New Architecture"
Box 02 (Collection I) Folder 5
Speech Material from WKH Talks (xtra [sic] copies), 1940s, 1970s
Box 02 (Collection I) Folder 6 to 7
Speech Material - Mscl. Drafts, Quotes, Clips, etc., 1940s-1960s
Box 03 (Collection I) Folder 1
Speeches, Talks, Articles, 1956-1960
Box 03 (Collection I) Folder 2
Speeches, Talks, Articles, 1961-1963
Box 03 (Collection I) Folder 3
Speeches, Talks, Articles, 1964-1967
Box 03 (Collection I) Folder 4
Book Material, Lectures notes, 1940s-1960s
i: WKH Book Material, ii: World Problems, iii: WKH Book Material, iv: WKH Notes
Box 03 (Collection I) Folder 5
G - General, 1950s-1970s
Box 03 (Collection I) Folder 6
H - General, 1940s-1970s
Box 03 (Collection I) Folder 7
J - General, 1960s
Box 03 (Collection I) Folder 8
M - General, 1940s-1950s, 1970s
Box 03 (Collection I) Folder 9
N - General, 1959-1960
Includes 1 photograph of WKH in academic gown
Box 03 (Collection I) Folder 10
P - General, 1960s-1970s
Box 03 (Collection I) Folder 11
R - General, 1950s-1960s
Box 04 (Collection I) Folder 1
S - General, 1960s-1970s
Box 04 (Collection I) Folder 2
T - General, 1950s-1960s
Box 04 (Collection I) Folder 3
Information Miscellaneous (Unit Costs, etc.), 1940s-1950s
Box 04 (Collection I) Folder 4
Obituaries, 1981
Box 04 (Collection I) Folder 5
Personal Papers/Documents, 1910s-1920s
Box 04 (Collection I) Folder 6
Pictures that interested WKH, undated
Box 04 (Collection I) Folder 7
Photos - WKH work, undated
Box 04 (Collection I) Folder 8
Photos etc., undated
Box 04 (Collection I) Folder 9
U-V-W - General, 1950s, 1970s
Box 04 (Collection I) Folder 10
X-Y-Z - General, 1960s-1970s
Box 04 (Collection I) Folder 11
A - General, 1960s-1970s
Box 04 (Collection I) Folder 12
Rotch Scholarship, 1930s-1980s
Box 04 (Collection I) Folder 13
WKH Misc., 1940s-1980s
Photographs, catalogue, and correspondence on the work of sculptor George Rickey; also includes a letter from Frank Lloyd Wright to WKH (1952); .
Box 04 (Collection I) Folder 14
Travel, 1960s
Primarily correspondence regarding professional memberships and upcoming meetings; includes a letter detailing proposed Henry Moore Sculpture for the U.N. (1980)
Box 04 (Collection I) Folder 15
Publicity - Personal 1954-1964, 1940s-1960s
Correspondence and clippings; also contains Program for Corner-stone Ceremony for the United Nations (1949)
Box 05 (Collection I) Folder 1
Harrison and Abramovitz / Albany [and United Nations], 1970s
Box 05 (Collection I) Folder 2
State University Study Community, 1969-1970
Box 05 (Collection I) Folder 3
Harrison & Abramovitz / Miscellaneous, 1960s-1970s
Box 05 (Collection I) Folder 4 to 5
Rockefeller Center - Current, 1970s
Press materials and correspondence
Box 05 (Collection I) Folder 6
Rockefeller Center / Prior to 1970, 1930s-1960s
Includes correspondence and project narrative
Box 16 (Collection I) Folder 1
Prospective Jobs, 1970s
Inscribed on back: "Malta Opera / Convention Building"
Box 16 (Collection I) Folder 2
Natl. Academy & Rock. University, 1960s-1970s
Items WKH Discussing with John Turner [labeled on back: "Natl Acad. And Rock. Univer. To be reviewed 1/67"]
Box 05 (Collection I) Folder 7
Lincoln Center : Metropolitan Opera House Acoustics, 1960s-1970s
Box 05 (Collection I) Folder 8
Lincoln Center & Metropolitan Op. / Miscellaneous 1967 to date, 1960s-1970s
Box 05 (Collection I) Folder 9
Lincoln Center & Metropolitan Opera General Material, 1960s
Including Minutes of Subcommittees, Complete List of All Persons Connected with Project, and a Record of Important Dates
Box 05 (Collection I) Folder 10
Newpaper clipping, 1960
Fragment on Pairs Opera staircase
Box 06 (Collection I) Folder 1
Lincoln Center: Metropolitan Opera, 1950s-1960s
"All art work including Chagall, Callery, Maillol, Lehmbruck. Lobmeyer Chandelliers"
Box 06 (Collection I) Folder 2
[Art], 1960s-1970s
Primarily material related to Metropolitan Opera
Box 06 (Collection I) Folder 3 to 4
[J. Seward] Johnson Residence, 1970s
Box 06 (Collection I) Folder 5
United Nations - Art Committee & Miscellaneous, 1960s-1980s
Box 06 (Collection I) Folder 6
United Nations - Mscl. Corr. And Documents, 1940s-1950s
Box 16 (Collection I) Folder 3
United Nations Headquarters - Information & Records, 1940s-1950s
Box 06 (Collection I) Folder 7
Photographs, undated
Group photographs from conferences, meetings, etc.
Box 16 (Collection I) Folder 4
United Nations - Planning Meetings, 1940s
Box 16 (Collection I) Folder 5
United Nations - WKH Personal appt., 1940s-1950s
Box 06 (Collection I) Folder 8
United Nations - NY City Work on site & approaches, etc., 1940s-1950s
Box 07 (Collection I) Folder 1
Photographs
Includes album "To Honor Foreign Architects Visting the U.S. Dinner" (1946)
Box 07 (Collection I) Folder 2
Housing Old Personal Studies WKH wants saved, 1940s
Box 16 (Collection I) Folder 6
Aluminum Panel Construction / Patent Application, 1950s
Box 07 (Collection I) Folder 3 to 4
Architectural Associations - Miscl., 1950s-1970s
Box 07 (Collection I) Folder 5
American Institute of Architects, 1940s-1960s
Box 07 (Collection I) Folder 6
Architectural League, 1940s-1970s
Box 07 (Collection I) Folder 7
[American Academy in Rome], 1960s-1970s
Box 07 (Collection I) Folder 8
Historical Material, 1940s-1950s
Includes files from "confidential files that WKH wishes saved: Palaise de Versailles Report / Max Thornberg's Confidential Reports / Milo Perkins Confidential Report of May 1948 on effectiveness of MARSHALL Plan."
Box 08 (Collection I) Folder 1
Historical Material File, 1940s-1960s
AIAESD - IBEC -IHC - Seabrook Report
Box 08 (Collection I) Folder 2
IBEC Housing Corp., 1940s-1970s
[International Basic Economy Corp.]: includes papers, reports, album of photographs and note cards for a speech by Harrison for the Royal Soceity of Ulster Architects.
Box 08 (Collection I) Folder 3
Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies - WKH Exhibit 1979, 1979-1980
Box 08 (Collection I) Folder 4
ILO - UN - Geneva, 1960s-1970s
New Headquarters Building for Internatl. Labour Organ. of UN in Geneva - WKH heads Committee
Box 08 (Collection I) Folder 5
Metropolitan Opera, 1970s-1980s
Primarily correspondence regarding the South Lobby Alteration
Box 08 (Collection I) Folder 6
Metropolitan Alteration, 1978
Box 08 (Collection I) Folder 7
Pershings Memorial - New, 1970s-1980s
Box 08 (Collection I) Folder 8
Albany, 1970s-1980s
Miscellaneous correspondence
Box 09 (Collection I) Folder 1
[Pamphlets on mobile/modular homes], 1970s
Box 09 (Collection I) Folder 2
WKH review Rock. Apts. & other old things, 1930s-1940s
Includes 1 photograph of "Hall of a Country House designed by Wallace K. Harrison"; memorandum "Data on Hotel Avila, Caracas, Venezuela"; general correspondence and cost analysis for proposed Rockefeller Apartments
Box 09 (Collection I) Folder 3
[Blueprints for All-Ways House], ca. 1946
Box 09 (Collection I) Folder 4
[Blueprints for All-Ways House] "3/20/46 Duplicate", ca. 1946
Box 09 (Collection I) Folder 5
[Blueprints for All-Ways House] "Priority Plans", ca. 1946
Box 09 (Collection I) Folder 6
Albany Mall - Art Catalog, 1970s
Box 09 (Collection I) Folder 7
Albany South Mall - Art & Art Comittees, 1970s
Box 09 (Collection I) Folder 8
Albany South Mall - Art & Art Comittees, 1970s
Box 10 (Collection I) Folder 1
Albany South Mall, 1960s
Box 10 (Collection I) Folder 2
Albany South Mall, 1960s-1970s
Includes a photograph of WKH at the unveiling of the model
Box 10 (Collection I) Folder 3
Albany South Mall, 1970s
Box 10 (Collection I) Folder 4
EGG/Lounge Furniture, 1970s
Box 10 (Collection I) Folder 5
Albany South Mall, 1980s
Box 10 (Collection I) Folder 6
Albany South Mall / Correspondence for "EGG", 1980s
Oversize Oversize 01
Albany South Mall / Film Reel for South Mall Model, undated, 1 film reels
Box 10 (Collection I) Folder 7
Dartmouth, 1950s-1980s
Box 10 (Collection I) Folder 8
Lincoln Center - Nagare Sculptures, 1970s
Box 11 (Collection I) Folder 1 to 2
First Presby. Church, Stamford / General and Tower, 1970s
Box 11 (Collection I) Folder 3
[Radio City Scrapbook]
Box 11 (Collection I) Folder 4 to 5
UN Book mock-up
Box 12 (Collection I) Folder 1
"Research Guide for a Book", 1948
Box 12 (Collection I) Folder 2
Rock. C. 1936-37 / Opera Magazines, 1930s-1960s
Box 16 (Collection I) Folder 7
Picasso - Sculpture, undated
Includes contents of folder "negatives"
Box 12 (Collection I) Folder 3
Corresp. With Alexander Calder & Misc., 1950s
Box 12 (Collection I) Folder 4
Pencil Points article N.A.R., 1922
Box 12 (Collection I) Folder 5
Book, 1976
[Interview with WKH on N.A. Rockefeller]
Box 16 (Collection I) Folder 8
Stamford Church - Tearsheets, 1950s
Box 12 (Collection I) Folder 6
Material for Book - Misc., 1950s-1960s
Box 12 (Collection I) Folder 7
"For Avery", 1950s-1970s
Box 16 (Collection I) Folder 9
[Miscellaneous clippings, articles, book: Shelter Designs for Protection Against Radioactive fallout], 1950s
Box 16 (Collection I) Folder 10
Vasarelly, 1960s
Box 12 (Collection I) Folder 8
Persian Competition, undated
Box 17 (Collection I) Folder 1
[Miscellaneous Photographs and Slides, includes original folder], undated
Includes photographs of Alcoa, Rockefeller Center, Rockeller Apartments, Hopkins Center, and more
Box 13 (Collection I) Folder 1 to 2
[N.A. Rockefeller Book], undated
Box 17 (Collection I) Folder 2
[Correspondence Regarding Empire Youth Theater], 1974
Box 13 (Collection I) Folder 3
"Wallace K. Harrison - A Tribute" [Delivered by August Heckscher; includes magazie clipping on Albany Hall]
Box 13 (Collection I) Folder 4
Albany South Mall -- General -- Site plans, Cultural Center, 1978
Scrapbook : "Dedication: Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller-Empire State Plaza/Friday, October 6, 1978/Albany, New York"
Box 13 (Collection I) Folder 5
Albany South Mall -- General -- Site plans, Cultural Center, 1975-76
Construction photographs : 12 items
Box 13 (Collection I) Folder 6
Albany South Mall -- General -- Site plans, Cultural Center, 1977
Photographs of sculpture and pavement details : 6 items
Box 13 (Collection I) Folder 7
Albany South Mall -- General -- Site plans, Cultural Center, 1970
Photographs ("To Take to Albany to Match with Sample") : 8 items
Box 13 (Collection I) Folder 8
Albany South Mall -- General -- Site plans, Cultural Center, undated
Photographs, view, model, drawings : 7 items
Box 13 (Collection I) Folder 9
Albany South Mall -- General -- Site plans, Cultural Center, 1977-78
Photographs: rendering: "Mall from West", model, night view, Equestrian statue: "J.P. Seley/Cornell(?)"
Box 13 (Collection I) Folder 10
Albany South Mall -- General -- Site plans, Cultural Center, undated
Xeroxes of site plan and photographs : 4 items
Box 17 (Collection I) Folder 3
Albany South Mall -- General -- Site plans, Cultural Center, ca. 1960s
Photographs, view, model, drawings : 7 items
Box 17 (Collection I) Folder 4
Albany South Mall -- General -- Site plans, Cultural Center, ca. 1960s
Xeroxes of site plan and photographs : 4 items
Box 13 (Collection I) Folder 11
Albany South Mall / Meeting Center (EGG)
Color photographs of interiors : 12 items
Box 13 (Collection I) Folder 12
Albany South Mall / Meeting Center (EGG)
Photographs, model, interior, exterior : 5 items
Box 13 (Collection I) Folder 13
Albany South Mall / Meeting Center (EGG)
Miscellaneous: xeroxes, brochure folder
Box 13 (Collection I) Folder 14
Corning Glass Building, New York City
Photograph : 1 item; Xeroxes : 2 items
Box 14 (Collection I) Folder 1
First Presbyterian Church (Stamford, CT), ca. 1958
Box 14 (Collection I) Folder 2
Brochure "This church…this architect…these people make news", 1950s-1980s?
Photograph of detail sheet : 4 items
Box 14 (Collection I) Folder 3
Hall Auditorium, Oberlin College (Oberlin, Ohio)
Photographs, negatives and positives : 21 items
Box 14 (Collection I) Folder 4
Wallace K. Harrison Residence (Huntington, Long Island, NY), undated
Photographic prints : 4 items; Contact sheets : 3 items; Negatives : 4 items
Box 14 (Collection I) Folder 5
Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College (Hanover, New Hampshire)
Photographs of drawings : 23 items ; Photographs of exterior : 8 items
Box 14 (Collection I) Folder 6
Lincoln Center (New York, NY)
Site plan photographs : 5 items; Slide : 1 item
Box 14 (Collection I) Folder 7
Metropolitan Opera (New York, NY), 1960s
Photographs, slides, contact sheets, and transparencies of sit plans, interiors, exteriors, and models : approx. 100+ items
Box 14 (Collection I) Folder 8
Metropolitan Opera (New York, NY)
Miscellaneous xeroxes, clippings, tearsheets, brochure, unidentified sketch, Opera News Magazine
Box 17 (Collection I) Folder 5
Metropolitan Opera (New York, NY), undated
Photographs of model : 5 items
Box 17 (Collection I) Folder 6
David Milton Residence (Bermuda)
Photographs : 2 items ; Photostats of drawings : 9 items
Box 17 (Collection I) Folder 7
Residence, Pocantico Hills (Tarrytown, New York)
Box 14 (Collection I) Folder 9
New York Museum of Science and Technology (Flusing Meadows Park, NY)
Photographs : 9 items ; Transparencies : 28 items
Box 14 (Collection I) Folder 10
New York World's Fair 1939 Theme Building
Photographs : 36 items; clippings
Box 14 (Collection I) Folder 11
Pahlavi National Library (Tehran, Iran) -- International Competition
Original Program, Questions and Answers, Early Report, Miscellaneous
Box 15 (Collection I) Folder 1 to 3
Pahlavi National Library (Tehran, Iran) -- International Competition
Program, Identification Form, Photos of model, Information on country
Box 17 (Collection I) Folder 8
Pahlavi National Library (Tehran, Iran) -- International Competition
Original Program, Questions and Answers, Early Report, Miscellaneous
Box 17 (Collection I) Folder 9
Pahlavi National Library, Tehran, Iran, International Competition
Photographs of model : 33 items
Box 15 (Collection I) Folder 4
CIA Building - Program for Cornerstone Laying, 1959
Box 15 (Collection I) Folder 5
Pennsylvania Power & Light Building, Allentown, Pennsylvania
Photographs : 3 items; letter
Box 15 (Collection I) Folder 6
Residence, Pocantico Hills, Tarrytown, NY
Box 15 (Collection I) Folder 7
Library, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey
Transparencies : 10 items; Photographs : 5 items
Box 15 (Collection I) Folder 8
Rockefeller Center, New York City, 1960s-1970s
Photographs: 18 items ; contact sheet : 1 item
Box 15 (Collection I) Folder 9
Rockefeller Center, New York City, 1930s?-1970s?
Photographs : 5 items (includes images of models)
Box 17 (Collection I) Folder 10
Rockefeller Center, New York City
Photographs of original model : 3 items
Box 17 (Collection I) Folder 11
Rockefeller Center, New York City
Miscellaneous articles, xeroxes
Box 17 (Collection I) Folder 12
Rockefeller Center, New York City
Photographs on board, original scheme and new building [Standard Oil of New Jersey] : 5 items
Box 15 (Collection I) Folder 10
Meeting Hall, Rockefeller University, York Ave., New York City
Photographs, transparencies
Box 17 (Collection I) Folder 13
Socony-Mobil Building, New York City
Box 15 (Collection I) Folder 11
Residence in Seal Harbor, Maine
Box 15 (Collection I) Folder 12
Julian Street Residence, Scarborough, New York
Photographs, negatives and positives : 5 items
Box 15 (Collection I) Folder 13
United Nations, New York City, 1950s-1980s
Architectural Record, July 1952, offprint ; Henry Moore: United Nations Exhibits Committee, photographs : 16 items ; Miscellaneous xeroxes, photostats
Box 17 (Collection I) Folder 14
United Nations, New York City
Box 17 (Collection I) Folder 15
X City Project - Unbuilt on East River Site Now Occupied by United Nations
Miscellaneous photos, xeroxes, color xeroxes
Box Oversize 01
Unidentified Audio Reel, undated, 1 open reel audiotapes